Abstract
Kenya has amassed a wealth of paper based land information records collected over the duration of more than a century. The National Land Commission (NLC) having the mandate to develop a National Land Information Management System (NLIMS) for Kenya partnered with the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology on a project to develop a pilot LIMS for Nyeri County. A pilot Land Administration System (LAS) has been developed in this work and utilizes an Africanized Land Administration Domain Model (A-LADM) fitted to the Kenyan context. Various processes involved in land administration that required to be automated were identified. Informed by the numbers of applications made for the change of User service, it was picked as the first workflow to be automated. The key outputs of this work were the A-LADM and pilot LAS. The pilot solution uses a webcentric solution, with the data stored and managed centrally from a PostGIS database backend, using the Python Django framework to implement the server side and client side frontend. This solution demonstrates the importance of automating processes and supporting standards based software development. Stakeholder participation is key when implementing systems and 2 workshops are held to capture requirements and validate the developed solution.
Highlights
Kenya has amassed a huge collection of records since 1902 when the colonial government put in place the Crown Land Ordinance of 1902 [1]
This was monumental from a project management point of view that all planned activities had been concluded on time and all deliverables had been prepared and delivered
The system employs a centralized database, which holds the spatial units, the land records and information about the parties involved in land administration
Summary
Kenya has amassed a huge collection of records since 1902 when the colonial government put in place the Crown Land Ordinance of 1902 [1]. This law allowed alienation of native lands for the colonial masters and the alienation process involved formal registration of ownership rights. All the documentation produced from land transactions over these years has continued to be kept in paper form. This has seen a big number of these documents get destroyed by normal aging processes, lost through untracked paper trails and from corruption driven motives
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